''Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea'' () is a 1977 Czechoslovak comical

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directed by

Jindřich Polák Jindřich Polák (5 May 1925 – 22 August 2003) was a Czech film and television director. He is known for his science fiction productions, but worked in many different genres. Filmography Television series References External links

...

. It is a screen adaptation of

Josef Nesvadba Josef Nesvadba (19 June 1926 – 26 April 2005) was a Czech writer, best known in the English-speaking world for his science fiction short stories, many of which have appeared in English translation. Biography Josef Nesvadba was born in Prague, ...

's short story with the same title.''Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea''
on FDB.cz

Plot

In the near future, a technology enabling

time travel Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future. Time travel is a concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly science fiction. In fiction, time travel is typically achieved through the use of a device known a ...

has been developed and is now in commercial use. A group of unaging (thanks to anti-aging pills, which have also been developed)

Nazis Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...

conspires to alter the results of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

by traveling back in time and supplying

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

with a

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. To this end, they bribe the corrupt time machine pilot Karel, who agrees to assist them. On the day of the scheduled journey, Karel chokes on a breadroll and dies. His identical twin brother, Jan, cannot bring himself to tell Karel's fiancée Eva and begins to impersonate Karel. He is also later mistaken for Karel by the Nazis and stumbles along with their plot. Having been a designer of the rocket-ship time machine, he is able to pilot the ship and take them all back in time. When he realizes the nature of the Nazis' plans, Jan resolves to prevent their success. After triggering several paradoxes by travelling back and forth in time, he manages to defeat the Nazis and resolve the consequences of his twin's death.

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* {{IMDb title, 0213322 1977 films Films about Adolf Hitler 1970s science fiction comedy films Czechoslovak science fiction comedy films Films directed by Jindřich Polák 1970s films about time travel Czech science fiction comedy films 1977 comedy films 1977 science fiction films